Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp is doing no favours for Portsmouth

We all lost an hour’s kip last night – but Harry Redknapp’s Champions League dream stays well and truly alive.[>

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There were no nightmares for Harry as super Spurs strengthened their grip on that coveted top four spot.[>

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And he needn’t lose any sleep about facing Pompey again in the FA Cup semi-final in a fortnight. That looks a foregone conclusion.[>

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Spurs strolled through this game and ’Arry showed his ruthless streak last night by ruling out any favours for his crisis-hit old club.[>

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He said his loaned-out midfielder Jamie O’Hara would not be allowed to play for Pompey in the FA Cup, even though they are fast running out of fit players.[>

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Blues defender Hermann Hreidarsson snapped his Achilles yesterday. Redknapp said: “Jamie’s a Spurs player and he’ll be back here next season. It’s tough but that’s the way it is.”[>

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Pompey boss Avram Grant had two more players carried off in a game where he didn’t have enough fit players to fill his subs’ bench.[>

He said: “We will speak to Tottenham but it’s in their hands. Everyone will want to play in the Cup semi-final. It will be a different game.[>

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“I was very proud of the boys today. We were so short but we still had two good chances and never gave up trying.”[>

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Spurs, with an ex-Pompey manager and three former Fratton favourites, left on-fire Roman Pavlyuchenko on the bench to protect his injury. Poor Pompey didn’t have enough bodies to fill the seven seats on their bench.[>

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But Anthony Vanden Borre missed an early golden chance.[>

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The Belgian full-back, pushed into midfield, was put clean through by the classy Kanu but shot straight at Heurelho Gomes.[>

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Minutes later Gareth Bale broke clear and Peter Crouch was given too much room to meet his cross and put the boot – or head – into his old pals. A typical Crouchie goal.[>

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Niko Kranjcar was the next ex-Pompey man to hammer his old mates, tapping home Spurs’ second just before half-time. [>

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A Luka Modric mishit found its way on to the back of his boot via a hapless defender. Gomes denied Michael Brown again with a point-blank save but the gap in class got bigger and bigger.[>

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At times it was embarrassingly one-sided.[>

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When Pompey were running out of players, Hreidarsson went over on his ankle and had to be stretchered off and needed an oxygen mask.[>

Sub Danny Webber was next to go, followed closely afterwards by David James, who at least managed to leave under his own steam.[>

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Pompey aren’t just running out of time in the battle to stay up – they’re running out of players.[>

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Spurs rubbed salt in their wounds, pushing on their third ex-Fratton man Younes Kaboul to replace the injured Michael Dawson.[>

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No wonder Grant’s frown took on a whole new look of desperation yesterday.[>